Chapters 1-8 Summary

This novel opens in a park in San Francisco, California, in modern times. Homicide Detective Lindsay Boxer jogs through the park with her friend, Jill.

Chapter one follows Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and her friend, Jill, as they jog through the park on a sunny, Sunday afternoon. Boxer has just finished a big case and enjoys a day off. She comments on how she feels out of shape, but Jill appears to be fit and ready to run further.

Jill leaves to meet her overbearing husband, and Boxer turns to jog back home. She stops to admire an old townhouse along her route.

In the opening of chapter two, the townhouse explodes. Boxer calls 911 and enters the house to attempt to rescue the inhabitants. She rescues a small boy and exits the house with him just as firefighters arrive. They drag the...